Morris v. . Tuthill’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1982 · most notably Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co. (1900), Bitterman v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1907)
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facía that the assignor of a mortgage and his assignee acted in concert with the view, unnecessarily , to harass and oppress the mortgagor, and with intent to prevent payment, to the end that the equity of redemption might he foreclosed, and they become purchasers for less than the value, do not constitute a defense to an action to foreclose a mortgage. So, «Iso, the facts that the assignee took title from motives of malice, and solely with the view to bring an action, and that the assignor assigned from a like motivo, and without consideration, furnish no defense, and do not impeach plaintiil’s title. It is sufficient to sustain the action, that the mortgage debt is due, has been transferred to, and is owned by, plaintiff; and the mortgagor can only arrest the action by paying or tendering the amount due.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.